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An Amnesty International statement said there are reports the town [of Baga] was razed and as many as 2,000 people killed. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/09/boko-haram-deadliest-massacre-baga-nigeria What is the cure for this cancer ? Are we condemned to watch this happen over and over without taking any action because it might come back in our face ?

I didn't say it was coming from a russian forum, I said this would most likely be popular on a russian forum. I know nothing about F-22 or F-35 radar ranges but I know for sure the F-18E is an entirely different beast than the F-18C, just like the A-10C is a totatlly different beast than the A-10A eventhough they look exactly the same.

lol what ?! That's like saying a Su-27 is the same as a Su-30. Maybe you can post this sort of crap on russian forums and everyone applauds but in here you better know what you're talking about. The F-18E is a lot more than a F-18C with new engines...Get a clue, please.

It doesn't make much sense. What's a F/A-18 A-F ? It's an average of the capabilities of the entire F-18 serie ?

Oh no, I was talking about everyone in this thread. But maybe I've been jumping on conclusion too quickly, sorry. Reading the thread it felt like most of you guys were somewhat disappointed that X or Y weren't actively fighting the Islamic State.

Why is everyone so supportive of a military "solution" ? Did it produce any result in Afghanistan ? Irak ? Lybia ? The only thing we've achieved in those countries is creating more chaos, more extremism and more hatred towards the west. Why would it be any different with IS ?

I can confirm using mods in SP is safe, I've been doing it for a week and haven't had any issue with R* thus far. Looking at the GTAForums most people claiming to have been banned for SP modding are often the ones you find asking "how to I spawn this or that in GTAO" elswhere in the forums. So my guess is they're full of it and just got what they deserved. And it's not a total perma-ban, it's just a 2 weeks ban from GTA:O But Rockstar might loose its patience in the future.

So I bought European Ship Simulator a few months ago and during a discussion with the devs on their Steam forums they mentionned they were working on a SWAT tactical game. Since Ubisoft once again messed up with R6 I thought I'd share the info with you guys, to cheer you up :) Will it be anything like the SWAT serie ? Nobody knows so far but there's still hope ! Here is the trailer :

I came across these old pics while browsing my photobucket albums. I was quite sure I already posted them but can't seem to find them in my post history so...

So what ? It's a polish initiave, it's not like France was threathening Poland with an economical blocus if they refused to distribute CH

I think you're making a mistake if you think the muslims who rallyied after the attack to say "I'm Charlie" are the same than the ones who burn churches and threaten France with more attacks because of the last CH cover. When extremists commit attacks they do not represent the entire muslim population but when they organise a protest they do ?

I fully agree but if you haven't already, you should take a look at the video of the scene on Youtube. They have a really strange procedure to approach a potentially armed suspect...not to mention how they tackled his 14 years old sister and made her sit in their car just a few feet away from her dying brother...

But who defines which beliefs can or cannot be mocked ? The non-believer or the person who holds the beliefs ?

So if tomorrow some people living far away from Poland would order you to ban smoking, because it hurts their feelings, because it's banned in their country, because they have a book where it says it's forbidden, you would just comply ? ...

"Paul Hellyer recently stirred up global controversy when he testified before a half-dozen former US representatives that aliens exist. As Canada's former Minister of Defence, Hellyer is the first and only cabinet-ranking official from a G8 nation to publicly state a belief in extraterrestrials." Also Honestly I don't see why they would be concerned about this, only 2.000+ nukes went off between 1943 and 1998. They're clearly over reacting.

Well...maybe they are already here...maybe it's us. Yeah, I know, far fetched. But like I said in my previous post, maybe they are doing their best not to be seen by us. If you imagine they've been watching us for awhile they probably understood we aren't the kindest species with what we don't consider human. Put yourself in their shoes, would you really want to meet a species like us ? I sure wouldn't. Sounds interesting, thanks ! I'll look it up. I think "morality" is more wide spread than we think amongst animals. They most likely don't understand it the way we do but somehow they can tell right from wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePgC91kcmN0

I'm sorry but nobody is forcing all those nuts to read Charlie Hebdo. It's not like France was paradropping thousand of CH copies above muslim countries every week. In order to see those cartoons you have to look for them, they don't magically appear in front of your face. And what's next ? They are going to order us to ban porn ? Alcohol ? Santa ? It's time for them to evolve, not for us to go backward.

"Cleveland police shoot dead 12-year-old boy holding fake 'airsoft' gun" (The Guardian) A 12-year-old boy who was shot twice by police after grabbing what turned out to be a replica gun died from his wounds on Sunday, a day after officers responded to a 911 call about someone waving a “probably fake†gun at a playground.

Isn't it some kind of compliment to be called insane by the very same people you consider insane ? I find that reassuring :P

One problem I have with the Fermi paradox is that it's based on the assumption we already have the tools to detect other intelligent life forms. Without microscope we wouldn't have found out about bacterias and others microscopic life forms,yet those were floating around right under our noses. Also if we were to discover a planet hosting an intelligent life form similar to us I'm not sure we would be in such a big hurry to get in touch with them... I wonder when will we make that jump :p

So we should wait for species to be endangered before we do anything ? The least we can say is we trully suck at that when you consider our planet lost around 50% of its biodiversity in the last 40 years. Only the asteroid who wiped out the dinousaurs is coming close to this "achievment". It is estimated that species disapear at a rate 100 to 10.000 times faster than when we were not around.

Lol, at first I read : "Should terrorists be banned from Antarctica ?" And I thought, hmm, that might be an idea to solve our problems, a one way trip to Antarctica :D But yeah...I too think tourists shouldn't be alllowed there. We've already colonized enough place on earth for those people to fullfil their thirst of so called adventure. It really shows how fucked up we are if we are not even capable of protecting a pristine environment if we can't make profit on it at the same time.

I think she perfectly sums up the situation I wouldn't go as far as saying they betray journalism but I'd feel insulted if a media would decide for me what's offensive and what's not. Like Mark Twain said “Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.†Also This has not been confirmed by our authorities, all we know for sure is that Coulibali sold a car to a belgian guy. Rumors say they've had problems with payment and the belgian guy then provide weapons as a counterpart but it's just a rumor so far.

It doesn't really matter who wants it, the fact is, election after election more and more Flemish vote for these guys. I don't want to see my country split up but if it were to happen I'd rather see Wallonia -and Brussels- join France instead of becoming Walbania (no offense to any Albanians). I think most people in Flanders don't realise how the Walloons feel insulted by the NVA. You know, just like we expect the muslim to stand up and say the jihadists do not represent their religion and they do not support them, the Walloons expect the Flemish to do the same in regards of the NVA. And so far they haven't heard much. We can't deny the reality, Walloons and Flemish are 2 different communities, with different languages, different mindsets, different cultures. In my eyes this a strenght rather than a weakness and we should be proud of it. We should aknowledge our differences and in the same time realise they are meaningless. That being said Walloons also have a lot in common with the French. Ask them the name of 10 flemish politicians and 10 french politicians and you'll see which """country""" they know better. We are watching french TV and movies, reading french newspaper, we know about french history probably as much as the belgian one. So yeah, IF it were to go wrong, I don't think it would be hard for the walloons to become french instead of becoming a second luxembourg wihtout the money, the banks and the big german cars :P Of course all this is hypothetical, as far as I know France itself has no interest in wallonia and if it was up to me I'd prefer to keep my country as it is.

Interresting. The main french speaking TV channels have gone back to their usual broadcasting, I suspect the authorities have asked them not to further debate about it because some operations aren't over yet. lol, you guys...I AM Belgian. Born and grew up in Charleroi, Studied and start working in Brussels and for the last 7 years I've been living and working in flanders...but again not the right place to talk about this but I'd be glad to debate it in the approriate thread, even if its only between the 3 of us :)